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Britney Spears celebrates her birthday in happier times with Sam Lufti and designer Ole Lynggaard inside The ScandinavianStyle Mansion on Dec. 1, 2007 in Bel Air, Calif.
Britney Spears' former manager Sam Lutfi reportedly claims in his lawsuit against the singer that drug-sniffing canines once found a secret stash of crystal meth in the superstar singer's southern California house.
Lutfi, now suing Spears for defamation, says in new legal docs that he "brought drug-sniffing dogs into her home (several years ago)…and they found a cache of crystal methedrine, which was destroyed," TMZ.com reported Friday.
The bombshell allegation came in a filing related to an upcoming trial in the defamation dispute, according to the gossip site.
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Lutfi claims the once disturbed diva and her parents sullied his name by saying he turned Spears into a drug-addled mess before she was strapped to a gurney and placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold in January 2008.
Spears, 30, is now under a successful court-ordered conservatorship run by her dad Jamie Spears and her fiancé Jason Trawick.
In his filing, Lutfi describes what he'd like the "Hold It Against Me" singer to testify about if she's able to take the stand.
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At the moment, she's not an expected witness because a judge previously found she's not competent to testify while under the conservatorship.
Lutfi alleges that in addition to the pile of meth, the drug dogs also found "hot spots of drug residue in the carpeting, where her young sons [aged 1 and 3 at the time] played during visits," TMZ reported.
The self-styled manager claims he covered up the drug debris by shampooing and eventually replacing the carpet.
His filing also bashes Spears' dad, saying the singer referred to him as "a violent racist" and an alcoholic, according to TMZ.
Jaime Spears has been locked in a battle with Lutfi since swooping in to stop his daughter's public unraveling and winning a restraining order against the then-manager.
He and Britney's mom quickly replaced Lutfi with Larry Rudolph, who discovered Britney at 13 and built her career, and who helped Spears regain custody of her sons.
The former Mouseketeer went on to produce the hit comeback albums "Circus" and "Femme Fatale" along with successful world tours for each.
Spears now appears as a judge on Simon Cowell's TV talent show "The X Factor."
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